meet the team
Gareth Mates
Role - founder & lead investigator
Gareth has been interested in the paranormal since the age of seven, Gareth has been researching about the paranormal since then. He wanted to start this group because there is this other side that we don't understand and he would like to learn more. His first run in with the paranormal was when he saw a spectral dog at his parents house.
Gareth founded the group in 2003 with some help from his friends, the group split in early 2004 but Gareth remained the group finally became complete in 2005 with the arrival of Maryse & Dave.
Dave Murgatroyd
Role - Lead Investigator
Dave has been intrested in the paranormal since early in his working career when he had an unexplained incident, this fuelled his intrest into the paranormal. Dave has joined from another group and brings along more knowledge and insight to the team.
Maryse Dixon
Role - Enviromental scientist & Trainee investigator
Maryse got intrested into the paranormal because as a scientist she wanted to understand and learn from a scientific standpoint.
Her first encounter with the paranormal was poltergeist activity in her parents house.
Maryse brings her knowledge from her degree into the team, she has been very usefull in providing insight into natural occurences that could explain some paranormal acctivity.
All of the team members are 100% commited to R.I.P. South Wales and are doing this to understand and learn more about the paranormal.
The members are not in the team for publicity or profit.